Thursday, February 27, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Sochi 2014 lapbooks and links.
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/ceremonies-video-ceremoniya-nagrazhdeniya We watched this video on the making of the medals. # precious metals, measurements, braille, design and so much more.
We also watched various youtube videos on the music of the Sochi games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1iLMi0Do0 the children's choir was beautiful!
Mary outer cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
(Mary enjoyed doing Bing searches on Bing.
She loved the medals and athletic information.
Mary put a lot of care into glueing and placement
in keeping with her artisticness)
Aidan outer cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
(Aidan chose all of the printouts from research on the
Internet,, mostly Bing searches. He enjoyed the print out
on statistics. We had much discussion on the map of Sochi and
the surrounding Black Sea and locations of Ukraine and Russia.
Aidan inner cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
(Aidan especially enjoyed finding the mascots, and using
the Coke ad. I was really pleased that he especially wanted
Paralympic mascots in his lapbook,
We also watched various youtube videos on the music of the Sochi games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1iLMi0Do0 the children's choir was beautiful!
(Mary enjoyed doing Bing searches on Bing.
She loved the medals and athletic information.
Mary put a lot of care into glueing and placement
in keeping with her artisticness)
Mary inner cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
(Mary and I tried to get Aidan to put the Russian dolls
on his lapbook, but no success! Mary loved comparing the
mascots from Sochi 2014 to our own Vancouver Olympics, as well drawing them too.
On the left there is a chart on how many medals each country
was awarded, in keeping with her competitive spirit.
(Aidan chose all of the printouts from research on the
Internet,, mostly Bing searches. He enjoyed the print out
on statistics. We had much discussion on the map of Sochi and
the surrounding Black Sea and locations of Ukraine and Russia.
Aidan inner cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
(Aidan especially enjoyed finding the mascots, and using
the Coke ad. I was really pleased that he especially wanted
Paralympic mascots in his lapbook,
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Early K studies. Seasons, extreme weather,temperature,empathy,wildlife,.
Early K studies. Seasons, extreme weather, temperature, empathy, wildlife. Kellen is putting out bird feed for the birds in the cold. It was blowing snow. Here he can learn so much about temperatures and the effect on the fingers and toes! He can also learn to sympathize with the little creatures that have to search a little harder to get a meal. Every year we have a large variety of birds that visit our garden.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Walking a mile...
Walking a mile to and from the store in mild a snow storm just to chaperon Mum and to get some staples.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Sonlight Science Week 14 created much thought provoking conversation between the children.....see below
Sonlight Science Week 14 created much thought provoking conversation between the children. Apparently, the book "Blood & Guts" that comes with the curriculum suggests,
...that when speaking of the origins of teeth from an assumed evolutionary view.. quote "Until teeth were created, animals were limited to a menu of things that would fit into their mouths." This brought up lively debate between the children apart from myself. They found this quite preposterous and the idea of an animal cramming its food into its mouth to support the supposition of Darwinian Evolution quite a stretch. They were very willing to believe that animals might have been originaly created with teeth from the get go. Fun debate and room for free thought and opinion. We recently watched a live debate between Bill Nye, "the science guy" an Ken Hamm, creationist. http://debatelive.org/
It presented both sides of the science debate.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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